With changes (please specify, then change vote aftwerwards)

I honestly think that new players who place towers horribly (you guys know what I mean by this, right?), should receive progressive punishment:

1st - 3rd offense: kick
4th offense: 24 hour ban
5th offense: week ban
6th offense: month ban
Players would have to be warned at least 5 times prior to any punishment, and only 1 warning per minute would count towards the 5 (you can warn more than once per minute, but it won't count towards the 5) to keep things fair.

Now I guess you could say this is "harsh", but remember: they have received 15 warnings and 3 kicks before their ban, so honestly, people are generally smart enough not to get to the 4th offense.

So I understand this is a strategy game. Well, thing is, bad tower placement is not a bad- or any- strategy. It is a method of griefing (placing one or two towers off is okay, as this is how you claim spaces for 5x5 towers. Even Efcluke94 and marcoslater use this strategy). Yes, there are definitely griefers who act like they're noobs so they don't get banned. Even if this was a bad strategy rather than a griefing method, how would outlawing it be "unfun"? This will not make the game "unfun", but the complete opposite; it will make the game funner for the majority of people. If a team is okay with the "strategy", then they simply don't have to report.

Finally, if Tower Defense's biggest flaw is so easy to rectify, they why not do so? This doesn't even require any coding or plugin development.